Chickrassia. } BURSERACER. — 227 
CHICKRASSIA, A. Juss. 
Calyx cup-shaped, 4- or 5-toothed. Petals 4 or 5, imbricate, 
Staminal tube cylindrical, 8- or 10-crenate ; anthers erect, inserted 
at the summit of the teeth. Disk none. Ovary shortly stalked, 
3-celled with many biseriate ovules in each cell. Capsules woody, 
seeeeally opening in three 2-lamellate valves separating from 
-winged central axis. Seeds many, imbricate » winged below, 
seutecee! — Large trees, with lest pinnate leaves, Flowers 
middling-sized, in reeset al panicles 
Leaves ny inflorescences glabrous ; sesinbea greyish, wrinkled- 
Ch. tabularis, 
All softer parts and inflorescences softly ‘Pubescent ; capsules 
tai almost smooth - Ch. velutina. 
1. Ch. tabnlaris, A Fash: HE Ind Fi - 568; on Sylv. 
Madr. t. 1] —Yeng-ma or taw-yeng=m. aby ty evergreen tree (50— 
90 + 30—50 + 5—8), the young sticks slightly pobeentoed 
leaves unpaired or spuriously abruptly pinnate, 1-2 ft. long, 
glabrous; leaflets alternate or nearly so, in 4 to 10 pairs, on ‘ 
slender but rather short petiolule, ei ovate to ovate-oblong, 
ng-acuminate, increasing upwards in size from 2 or 8 to 5 in. 
long, entire, ne Sb FOtA ; flowers middling-sized, e¢reen- 
ish-) 1-2 lin. long minutely puberulous = forming 
minutely puberulous soon glabrescent terminal panicles; calyx 
puberulous, hardly a line deep; petals nearly 4 in. long, ovate- 
linear, indistinctly puberulous ; ovary elongate, sparingly a 
Why pubescent ; the style very short ; capsules oval, somewhat 
prota, wrinkled-rough, - the size of a pullet’s egg, greyish- 
,__4B-—Rather rare in the tropical forests of Chittegore and Pegu down to: 
Tenasserim ; als also Andamans,—Fl. Sept.—s.—SS. 
Bineiss ep ot b ht-coloured, “eget ined, woe veined, employed 
aes is. Usually anaes O’=24 pd. 
Teas al ternate, m es pairs with an odd one; eT mer aire 
rather lige, shortly petioluled or almost sessile, 3-5 in. long, 
piece a line Bf forming ample lax tawny tomentose panicles ; ; 
ee about 4 lin. deep, tawny — ss about ut } in: long, 
= y pubescent ; tik ovoid or almost globular, black 
and hat sn, soap thse a pigeo’s gg, somewhat pointed. 
